IT Software Engineer (Release Manager) | Chicago/Peoria, IL |

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate end-to-end release cycles across development, QA, UAT, and production environments.
• Monitor CI/CD pipelines to ensure successful builds and deployments.
• Create and manage UAT and production release plans.
• Cook up release readiness activities with QA, Infrastructure, Product, and Business teams.
• Facilitate Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and manage release cadence.
• Troubleshoot build and deployment issues.
• Support DevOps activities and cloud infrastructure operations.
• Improve deployment processes, automation, release quality, and delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 10+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree.
• 8+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with multiple Scrum teams.
• Experience as Release Manager, Scrum Master, Program Manager, or Project Coordinator.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to support flexible working hours based on release schedules.

Additional Information

• 8+ years of IT Release Management / Delivery Management experience.
• 6+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps tools.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on AWS experience including: ECS EC2 EBS S3 Glacier RDS VPC Route53 ELB IAM CloudFront CloudFormation CloudWatch SQS SES Lambda
• Strong Python programming experience.
• Experience with automated CI/CD and BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.